Firefox Must Add-Ons

Introduction

A lot of us use Firefox these days, and some maybe just using plain firefox. Although its pretty good even then, you can spice it up and make it a lot more useful with add-on features...

I am listing here few of the add-ons I would recommend you to use

Note - All are working in firefox 3.5...

Addons

1) Auto Pager

Firefox Description - AutoPager automatically loads next pages when you reach the end of a page. It works on a ton of sites,Google,Yahoo.. It works well with most other add-ons adblock plus, WOT and most of the greasemonkey scripts. Add AutoPager Refinements since 0.5.2.2

My Review - This Is the best thing you will ever download! If you read a lot of pages, and you are tired of clicking and then going to next page, this is it! It works with go4expert, techmafias and virtually every site you will visit. Use it for two days, my gurantee you will fall in love with it... Highly Recommended!!

My Review - Pretty good, Easy to use... If you use sites which has language you can’t understand, this is very handy. It has an auto detect feature, thus you don’t have to know which language it is, It will do it for you.

Firefox Description - The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface. An essential...

Firefox Description - FoxTab is a 3D tabbed browsing extension. With 6 attractive layouts to choose from, flipping between opened tabs becomes easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Use the grouping and filtering features, and start experiencing tabbed-browsing in a whole new way.

My Review - I personally found it irritating, it looks cool no doubt, but it slows things. It depends on you, if you like graphical stuff this is for you... I personally didnt like it so much. Plain old tab is good for me

Firefox Description - Add buttons to the Toolbar to search your favorite sites. Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere. Search smarter with instant suggestions as you type in the search box. Share web pages with friends via blog or email.

My Review - Recommened. One feature that is very useful, add bookmarks to google (by signing up) rather on firefox. Then you can access your bookmark from any computer around the globe, thus you carry your bookmark with you. Very helpful other wise too. Recommended!!!

Firefox Description - The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

My Review - I don’t know I got irritated. A lot of people liked it, but I personally found it annoying to allow scripts to run. It does its job well I guess, but too well for me. Give it a try I would say...

Firefox Description - Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.

My Review - Simple Clean. Easy To Use. If knowing IP’s of different adds you do a lot, its for you, pretty neat...

My Review - Thumbs Down!!! Even the sites I found had vulnerabilities it showed none!!! I don’t know you guys put it to test and let me know if it worked, Showed so much promise but I don’t think it lived upto it....

Firefox Description - WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT's color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites - green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop - helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

My Review - Really recommened. Lets you know if a site can’t be trusted. Lives upto its name!!

Firefox Description - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a common flaw found in todays web applications. XSS flaws can cause serious damage to a web application. Detecting XSS vulnerabilities early in the development process will help protect a web application from unnecessary flaws. XSS-Me is the Exploit-Me tool used to test for reflected XSS vulnerabilities.

My Review - Made by the same people who made sql inject me , so I don’t think its good... check and let me know if it works...

Firefox Desciption -
Find the Showcase menu in the 'View' menu (just under 'Sidebar'). The default shortcuts are listed there. Those may be changed using the Keyconfig extension. New buttons will be available when customizing the toolbar.

Showcase can be shown as a window, tab or sidebar. Also, it has two modes: global (which will show thumbnails for all tabs of all windows) and local (thumbnails only for the current Firefox window).

Just click the thumbnail of the browser you want, and it will be shown to you automatically. You may also right click in those thumbnails to perform the most usual operations on them. Multiple thumbanils can be selected by using left click and holding down the Control key, or using the same selection actions you would use in your system. Mouse middle button can be used to zoom a thumbnail. Use Control-F in Showcase to use the find bar.

My Review -
There always comes a point when we have just way too many tabs, this comes very handy then to directly jump that tab rather then pressing "tab" key and finding it. Very useful and a MUST!!

Firefox Description - Walnut (with icons from art.gnome.org) for a wooden look and feel. Walnut is a complete skin redesign so that all windows, widgets, panels, and even the addons have a wooden look and feel. Check Walnut2 for a more polished and smoother look!

Firefox Desciption -
Find the Showcase menu in the 'View' menu (just under 'Sidebar'). The default shortcuts are listed there. Those may be changed using the Keyconfig extension. New buttons will be available when customizing the toolbar.

Showcase can be shown as a window, tab or sidebar. Also, it has two modes: global (which will show thumbnails for all tabs of all windows) and local (thumbnails only for the current Firefox window).

Just click the thumbnail of the browser you want, and it will be shown to you automatically. You may also right click in those thumbnails to perform the most usual operations on them. Multiple thumbanils can be selected by using left click and holding down the Control key, or using the same selection actions you would use in your system. Mouse middle button can be used to zoom a thumbnail. Use Control-F in Showcase to use the find bar.

My Review -
There always comes a point when we have just way too many tabs, this comes very handy then to directly jump that tab rather then pressing "tab" key and finding it. Very useful and a MUST!!